ALLEN, Wm. - Died, at his residence 5 miles west of this city on the
30th of December 1868, Wm. Allen, in the 65th year of his age. When a
good man dies it is a loss to the comm.qnity as well as to his immediate
friends and relatives and such was the case when Mr. Allen departed this
life.- His death had been long anticipated which tended to soften the anguish
of friends and relatives. Conscious that the time was near at hand
when he must bid adieu to earth and its turmoils, nerved and buoyed up
with the ardor of a true christianity, he made all his preparations and met
his fate with that calm resignation that attends only the good man when
called to pass along the dark valley of death. He died as he had lived, one of
God's noblemen - an honest, upright man. We will not attempt in the language
of a cold calculating humanity to draw aside the veil that hides from
the outer world the sorrow and grief of his stricken wife and children.
Through the gloom of their sorrow comes the proud consolation that in all
after years when they stand beside the grave of the departed husband and
father they will realize the fact that in the green earth's quiet bosom sleeps
one upon whom, during a long and useful life the breath of dishonor never
rested and who went to the bosom of his God with all the christian hopes
clustering around him. He has finished his course. The will of God is accomplished
and the earth in her cold embrace conceals the form of our
much loved friend; but he has left to all as a heritage an upright and manly
example that it will be well to imitate. [Fayetteville Weekly Democrat 1/9/69]